About the artwork

A unprecedented performance will be brought to open the epoch-making art festival, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale by Takeshi Kobayashi. “Beyond the Circle” presents an alternative world of music which is composed of originally-arranged orchestra, sang along by various singers with distinctive voices. Kobayashi has composed this new symphonic suite consisting of eight movements, taking an inspiration from “the flow of the river is ceaseless” by Minao Shibata, a musician and composer who had a great influence on Japanese music scene.